My Favorite Place.

Hi friends, today I’m going to talk about a field trip. when I was a child my mom always took me with her to send letters to my grandma in Rucamaque, so we had to walk from the subway to the national post office of Chile.  I used to look all the buildings in there I thought they were amazing with so much history inside of his walls, sometimes it was very difficult because “of course” she was taller than me at the time, compared to my legs, I ran to reach only one of its steps, I never had the chance to get them until a few years ago, so I can say that my favorite place is the national library in Metro Santa Lucia, It is located on the Avenida Libertador General Bernardo O'Higgins in a building completed in 1925, though its history reaches to the early nineteenth century before it was relocated to its current home. It has an extensive and valuable collection of books and manuscripts. Several of these were acquired from or donated by their owners, making up an important national historical treasure. I’ m in love with the books, I really think that this is the perfect place to focus on one or more of them till you drop.

THE MAN WITH THE PINK TRIANGLE

Hi mates, today I'm going to talk about a book I read months ago: The man with the pink triangle. It has an anonymous author and I understand why. The book is about a german gay man who is deported as homesexual by Nazis and taken to concentration camp. There he has to do a lot of sexual services and be the lover couple of a lot of commanders and nazis, only to survive. He explains everything he has to do and how he rises from a regular convict to a block chief (the blocks were where all slept). The book's name is because, apart from the uniforme with stripes they all wore, everybody had a triangle in their arms with a selected color that identified the purpose for being in the concentration camp. There were blue, brown, green, red, yellow and pink. I remember that some were designed for gypsies, communists and murderers. The yellow one was for Jews and the pink one for homosexual (wich were totally discriminated for the other convicts). It ends when Germany is liberated by the Americans and he can come back to his town. It's a really shocking book, especially when he talks about the massacres all they suffered just for being homosexual. And most surprising the fact that this is not known by the world!

David Harvey

I must say that I'd love to meet David Harvey, he's a distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Geography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He once came to Chile to ENEG (encuentro nacional de estudiantes de geografía) and I got to take a picture with him, but now I don't have it because my camera was stolen. Well, I like him because he took the book "The Capital" by Karl Marx and applied it on urban studies, this is reflected on his book "The Limits to Capital". I've read 4 of his 10 books of Economic Geography and if any time I had the chance to chat with him I'd love to discuss about how he understands the city, economic geography, marxism and urban poverty. As geographer I'd really want to be like him one day.

Coquimbo-Viña del Mar-El Quisco

Last summer I had the firts holidays with my girlfriend, we did a lot of funny things and we visited 3 different places. The first one was Coquimbo with my girlfriend's family, we stayed there for 5 days, but we only could enjoy 4 because she was with a really painful stomach ache (fever included). After she recovered, we spent time in the beach and we visited my father who lives in La Serena. There, we bought some things in La Recova and we went to El Faro. On nights we went to Barrio Ingles to drink something and to listen de different bands that played there, there were really good musicians! The most fun about this place was that every Friday nights the streets were closed and you could enjoy and listened the bands that pleyed in the middle of the street.
The second place we visited was Viña del Mar with some friends, we spent there 4 days. During the day we went to the beach to tan and then we came back at night to drink and play cards.
And finally we went to El Quisco for 3 days with Loreto, a good friend of both of us. We spent the day on the beach and on night we cooked delicious meals and watched movies or played poker.
It was really funny, I'd do it again.

A Friend

Hello mates! Today I'm talking about a good friend, her name is Loreto. We first met at work; as packagers in a supermarket. It was 3 years ago and since then we have become inseparable. Then, thanks to her I met my actual girlfriend who was her BFF.

The three of us do all kind of things together, we like to go to the cinema, listen to Queen, the only group of music we both like (she likes pop while I prefer progressive rock) or just meeting in some house and make something delicious to eat. Loreto cooks great; she can make beautiful cakes, cookies and pies.

The last great moment we had was on summer, we went to Loreto’s beach house in “El Quisco”. Every night we went to center only to buy a “Churro” and things to eat and then we saw all the movies we could. We had a really great time; we rest, we played cards and table games, we went to the beach and so on.

Loreto is an awesome friend; she is loyal, reliable, supportive, and she’s always taking care of me.

And I will always stands by her side, because I know she will be there too.

"The Parcelazo".-

Hi Blog Buddies!!! I want to sleep .-.

Today, I going to talk about "Parcelazo 2013". It was a great party and also a celebration for charity. It was on january and were more than one hundred. The "Parcelazo" was on a plot of land in San José de Maipo. It is a city located in Cordillera Province, Santiago, some forty eigth 48 kilometers south-east of Santiago. The Plot of Land is sixteen hectares.
The party was held because a friend's house was burned. He lost everything!!!!! Also It  the ticket of party cost five thousand Chilean pesos. It lasted from three pm to six am the next day. I was all night Dj-ing. I played rock, cumbia, salsa, bachata and reggaeton for "the Flaites". Also my friends sold different drinks as Piscola, Ron,Cuban mojito, beer and vine. We raised one million Chilean pesos.
My Friend (Diego) with his family could afford an apartment in the center of santiago thank the party. I worked all night and was very tired. additionally, a friend slept on the grass to be very tired Also I could not drink anything. But I am very happy to get lots of money. It was a great party.!!!
My friend is very grateful for my job and my solidarity. =)

A building I like: GAM

Today I’m going to talk about GAM which is a cultural center focused in the access of culture and audience formation.

I like it for its modern architecture and because you can see theater, dance and music. The first time I heard about it was when it burned, that was before I got in to university.  Then I finally saw it on my way to classes in 2010.  It amazed me because of its size (larger than the surrounding buildings), the architecture and its construction material (which seems oxidized).

Most of the people don’t know about it or for what is it used for, only neighborhoods of the GAM enjoy its activities. I think these activities should be defused to the rest of Santiago, so lots of people could see theater, dance and music instead of going shopping all weekends.

It stands above the surrounding architecture; it’s even more impressing than the Crowne Plaza Hotel.

Nowadays all we can use it as a recreation place; you can go to read, to take coffee, project meetings with my teachers or just to hang out with my friends.
I think we all classmates should organize and visit it; go to see a theater play or a music concert. What do you think?